Bill Newton Graduate Rockville High School Led state of Indiana in rebounding in senior season (1967-68) averaging 22 per game Two-time All-SEC at Louisiana State U. with 1,339 career points 1970s LSU All-Decade Team Member Member of 1970 NIT Final Four Team Team Captain and Most Valuable Player Member Indiana Pacers 1972-73 ABA Champions Member…
Kristin McBride Hoopeston Area High School Grad National YMCA All-American Named by the News-Gazette Vermilion County Athlete of the Decade for Swimming Swam competitively for Ball State U. and Eastern Illinois U. Set freshman record in 200 Breast stroke
Greg Matta At Hoopeston-East Lynn High School was a 3-year All-Conference player in Football and Basketball Scored over 2000 points and 2-time AP All-State AP All-State Football Team Chicago Sun-Times All State Basketball Team Two-year Conference MVP in Basketball Played at Alabama-Birmingham and Southern Illinois U. Carbondale Member IBCA & Hoopeston Athletic Halls of Fame…
Joe Krakoski Graduated from Westville High School Won 14 varsity letters in four different sports Left as school’s basketball career scoring leader All-Vermilion Valley in Football and Basketball Vermilion County 220 record stood for decades Played football at the University of Illinois Drafted in 6th Round of 1961 Draft by Washington Redskins Played five seasons…
2004 Seeger Football Seeger High School won the 2004 IHSAA State Football Championship. The Patriots were 15-0 for the season with 8 shutouts turned in by their defense. The Head Coach was Brian Moore.
Richard Klein 1951 Graduate of Schlarman High School After beginning at U. of Georgia and military service, was a two-way tackle at U. of Iowa where he was Honorable Mention All-American Two-year letter winner and 2nd-Team All-Big Ten 8-year career in NFL with Bears, Cowboys, Steelers, Boston Patriots and Oakland Raiders NFL All-Rookie Team AFL…
Steve Jones All-State in cross country and track from Pontiac High School At DACC was All-American in cross country, indoor track, outdoor track and marathon Team Captain and MVP in track & cross country 1998 NJCAA Marathon National Champion Team Captain and Cross Country MVP at Western Illinois U.
2002 North Vermilion Girl’s Basketball North Vermillion High School won the 2002 IHSAA Girls Basketball Championship. It was the first state title for the school in any sport. The Falcons, who finished the season 25-1, were coached by Ken Gentrup.
Anthony Jones 1990 Danville HS Graduate Named IHSA All-State Track & Field Team 6 times Illinois HS Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year University of Illinois Male Athlete of the Year Big Ten Track & Field Freshman of the Year Two-time Big Ten Champion (55m indoors / 100m outdoors) Member U. of Illinois Big Ten…
2001 Attica Boys Basketball Attica High School won the 2001 IHSAA State Championship at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Ramblers finished with a 21-6 record Attica was coached by Ralph Shrader.